BOY CULTURE: Brock Yurich has been laboring on his film Test for 10+ years — the least we can do is support it. Also, check out his recent Bammer & Me podcast with Mike Balaban here.
VICE: The history of Russia’s so-called “unofficial gay anthem,” a song called “Голубая луна” aka “Blue Moon.”
NEW REPUBLIC: This is what we get when respecting people’s timelines for coming out goes way, way too far — a bunch of sex workers rushing to talk about having sex with virulently anti-queer queer Lindsey Graham a heartbeat after his heartbeat stopped … when it can do no good! It’s now just fun gossip, unless it somehow helps move the needle away from Graham’s numb-skull sister in South Carolina’s Senate race.
Note: He allegedly had sex with one when the guy was underage (though apparently was unaware of that fact and the guy lied to him) and even tried to film him. Makes you wonder what’s on Graham’s hard drive. Or if it still exists.
Oh, well, I’m glad he’s dead and buried.
NEW YORK TIMES: One of the most disgusting headlines ever, and it really did happen over Lindsey Graham’s dead body: “Putin Nears a Prize: Restoring Ties with the U.S. While Giving Up Nothing.”
JOE.MY.GOD.: Meet the cop who found a man dead, and then moved into his home and impersonated him for years.
HUFFINGTON POST: “Millions” of hacking attempts across the Internet:
“The emergency shutdowns of banking, airline, rail, tax and government services from Tokyo to Helsinki showed how much public and corporate systems rely on the software, and how hard it is to fix such flaws quickly once they are made public.”
POLITICO: Even odious Peter Thiel is now breaking with Trump — at least on Iran. P.S. When you say,“gee, I was always against this!” months after it happened and failed and has become a quagmire, fuck you. I also still remember a lot of gay influencers saying anything that got rid of Iran’s then-current leader was a good thing. Not so much anymore, eh? Why is the U.S. so addicted to not thinking ahead?
PEOPLE: Sarah Palin’s famous hockey-star boyfriend has died of cancer at 69. It’s insane that we live in a world where a hockey superstar dies of cancer while asking for donations to cover the costs — and is romantically involved with a woman who was damn close to be U.S. VP. But her party is for that ending for all of us — “You’re on your own and anything else is Commie-nism.”
KENNETH IN THE (212): Queer and queer-adjacent mags of the moment.
THE GUARDIAN: Ed Gamble, who hosts a Traitors companion show in the U.K., credits gay men with “keeping my ego going.”
ADVOCATE: A married gay couple in Maine alleges their Centre Electric co-workers rained food down on them — and for that, the couple was fired.
INSTAGRAM: Minnesota GOP is truly not sending their finest: